Drupal 8: 200+ Improvements for Drupal Web Designers

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Drupal 8, the most recent version of Drupal, has many improvements for all users, including Drupal web designers and front-end developers. For web designers, “ease of use” has been redefined by Drupal, enabling them to create appealing and mobile-friendly web experiences.

Our Ultimate Guide to Drupal 8 eBook gives an overview of the new features in Drupal 8, and shows how Drupal 8 will make Drupal web designers’ lives easier.

Drupal 8 has tons of front-end improvements, including:

Various front-end libraries, creating the ability to build mobile-friendly and rich front-end apps

Drupal 8 output has been converted to semantic HTML5 markup

Responsive by design, Drupal 8 includes capabilities such as mobile-friendly tables, toolbars, themes, and images

The PHPTemplate based theme has been replaced by Twig, giving Drupal website designers the ability to use HTML/CSS knowledge to modify markup (all without having PHP expertise!)

Features such as CSS and JavaScript aggregation are already turned on, bettering performance and increasing page load times

The ability to use your own admin and drop screens as well as modal dialogs, which was previously part of the Chaos tool suite (ctools) module